Scenario: a mission-critical application is having performance issues during peak business hours. App developers blame the storage. The storage team blames the network. The network admin blames the infrastructure. The…
Just Throw It in the Cloud! The Battle of the Clouds Series
Taking a Leap to the Cloud: Benefits to the Business and ITSM
According to CIO, 96% of organizations were using the cloud in 2018. That’s a convincing number, which makes it surprising to hear resistance to the cloud from some of today’s…
Private Cloud: I’m Not Quite Dead Yet
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated—The On-Premises Data Center Mark Twain As I mentioned in my previous post, the hype cycle has the on-premises data center dead to…
Public Cloud: All Aboard the Hype Train!
We’ve all heard it before. “The cloud is the future!” “We need to move to the cloud!” “The on-premises data center is dead.” If you believe the analysts and marketing…
Cloud Adoption Myths and How to Deal With Them
Cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but “how fast.” Yet for many organizations, the journey to the cloud is anything but straightforward. As businesses strive to modernize legacy systems and embrace the agility of platforms like AWS, they often encounter a tangled web of complexity, visibility gaps, and operational silos.
Cloudy With a Chance of Governance: RBAC, Policy, and Improving Cloud Confidence
For many organizations, the decision of moving workloads to the cloud is all over but the shouting. The problem is that the shouting is pretty loud, and often centers around…
The Database Future Is in the Cloud
I’ve written before about the disappearing DBA, and how the database administration role itself is evolving. I believe the days of tuning indexes are ending, one page at a time.…
Will I Save Money by Moving to the Cloud?
This post is part one of two, taking an atypical look at the public cloud and why you may or may not want to leverage it. Did you know AWS…
Virtualization’s Future
During this series, we’ve looked at virtualization’s past, the challenges it has created, and how its evolution will allow it to continue to play a part in infrastructure delivery in…
The Best Way to Prepare for Emerging Technologies
Exciting new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things are dominating news cycles, but are they dominating federal IT environments? Maybe not.